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Erik, who is a really fuckin angry bean, just aged out of the foster care system, full ride scholarship to MIT and a plan that’s already been ten years in the making to ace his classes and join the military except 

In his International Studies class, there’s a baby deer of a boy, literally gets teary eyed at some of the videos they watch, yelling about unilateral trade agreements and globalisation and 

He keeps on bumping into him, looking confused at the grocery store, trying to figure out how to ride the bus (T’challa looks at him wide-eyed when they finally manage to get on, Erik somehow next to him in the window seat, thighs pressed together. “Fossil fuels,” he breaths, massively confused. “Why?”), trying to order coffee at the tiny little fair trade hole in the wall coffee shop and coming away with something that’s all whipped cream and confusion and

*giggles*

im really sorry that im laughing but-

*bursts into more giggles*

*clears throaght*

…. and my reply got rather long so I decided to post it here.

(This is the original post, btw:

http://irresistible-revolution.tumblr.com/post/171433311099/tbh-i-dont-think-a-lot-of-the-comparisons-between)

I agreed with OP only to a certain degree. Here’s the thing - people are reacting, at least subconsciously, to the “American” part of Killmonger’s African-American heritage: the part of him that descends, and has been shaped in the most intimate way with a culture of entitlement and … how do I put it? … ‘we need to destroy/subdue everyone else to be safe’. Killmonger might be motivated to liberate black people, but he’s going about it in a specifically White way.

Also, while Nakia was raised in the bosom of Wakanda, she deserves credit for having the ideologies she does. Compare to: Prince N’jobu was also a war dog who wanted to enact change, but his ways involved betraying Wakanda, and spilling Wakanda blood. Or to, I imagine, most other war dogs who are satisfied with Wakanda’s isolation pactrices.

In fact, I don’t think enough credit is given to Wakanda as a society. While Killmonger feels black people as a whole are entitled to Wakanda’s weapons and technology and that Wakanda betrayed Africa by being isolationist (and ‘interesting’ argument that makes the crimes of European invasion and brutality more Wakanda’s fault than, you know, Europe) - most people are ignoring the fact that Wakanda could easily, scaringly easily have gone the opposite direction and made itself an empire, imposing its superiority on not just Africa, but the entire world.

Wakanda gets condemned for its isolationism, in the film and outside it, when really it should be praised for its restraint. Because this is a nation that could easily have enforced tyranny on the entire world, and it chose instead to improve itself.

THANK YOU CHAD FOR INSPIRATION (now do the thing :DDD) 

T’challa: 

For the @killchallawishlist exchange.

person (out of frame): What’s the name of the cat on your shoulder?

M’baku: cat?

M’baku: *turns around* !@$^&%*(  WHAT IS THIS?!